[Differential] [Commented On] D3769: expose immutable through dbus
mvourlakos (Michail Vourlakos)
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Wed Dec 21 17:40:33 UTC 2016
mvourlakos added a comment.
In https://phabricator.kde.org/D3769#70551, @davidedmundson wrote:
> > why? isnt kwayland independent of plasmashell?
>
> Sort of.
>
> Wayland core protocols (by design) do not allow a window to position itself, as a security measure,
> Plasma needs to so, as you've pointed out KWayland contains a protocol to speak to kwin to move a window.
>
> However, if you let everyone do that, you defeat the entire security point. So the intention is to lock that protocol down to only being available to certain processes.
>
> However, your app could be one of those trusted processes.
Thank u David,
I will forward a request for information(policies, restrictions etc) to the kwin developers concerning that matter
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